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Synonyms

encourage, fortify, harden, nerve, ready, season, strengthen, toughen—more at HARDEN

steel wool noun : long fine steel shavings used esp. for cleaning and polishing

steely adjective : resembling or suggesting steel (as in hardness, color, strength, or coldness)

Synonyms

austere, dour, fierce, flinty, forbidding, grim, gruff, rough, rugged, severe, stark, stern—more at GRIM

gray, leaden, pewter, silver, silvery, slate—more at GRAY

1steep adjective 1 : having a very sharp slope : PRECIPITOUS

2 : too great or too high <~ prices>

— steep·ly adverb

— steep·ness noun

Synonyms

[1] abrupt, bold, precipitous, sheer; also perpendicular, plumb, straight, vertical; craggy, hilly, mountainous; angled, canted, cocked, heeled, inclined, listed, slanted, sloped, tilted, tipped

Antonyms

easy

[2] excessive, extreme, immoderate, inordinate, stiff—more at EXCESSIVE

2steep noun : a steep slope

3steep verb 1 : to soak in a liquid; especially : to extract the essence of by soaking <~ tea>

2 : to saturate with or subject thoroughly to (some strong or pervading influence) <~ed in learning>

Synonyms

[1] drench, drown, impregnate, saturate, soak, sop, souse—more at SOAK

[2] imbue, inculcate, infuse, ingrain, invest, suffuse—more at INFUSE

stee·ple noun : a tall tapering structure built on top of a church tower; also : a church tower

stee·ple·chase noun [ORIGIN: fr. the use of church steeples as landmarks to guide the riders]

: a horse race across country; also : a race over a course obstructed by hurdles

1steer noun : a male bovine animal castrated before sexual maturity and usu. raised for beef

2steer verb 1 : to direct the course of (as by a rudder or wheel)

2 : GUIDE, CONTROL

3 : to pursue a course of action

4 : to be subject to guidance or direction

— steers·man noun

Synonyms

conduct, direct, guide, lead, marshal, pilot, route, show, usher—more at LEAD

steer·age noun 1 : DIRECTION, GUIDANCE

2 : a section in a passenger ship for passengers paying the lowest fares

stego·sau·rus noun : any of a genus of plant-eating armored dinosaurs with a series of bony plates along the backbone

stein noun : an earthenware mug

stel·lar adjective 1 : of or relating to stars : resembling a star

2 : marked by eminence and distinction

Synonyms

astral, star, starry; also celestial, empyrean, heavenly; astronomical, astrophysical; astronautic; starlike

1stem noun 1 : the main stalk of a plant; also : a plant part that supports another part (as a leaf or fruit)

2 : the bow of a ship

3 : a line of ancestry : STOCK

4 : that part of an inflected word which remains unchanged throughout a given inflection

5 : something resembling the stem of a plant

— stem·less adjective

— stemmed adjective

2stem verb stemmed; stem·ming : to have a specified source : DERIVE

3stem verb stemmed; stem·ming : to make headway against <~ the tide>

4stem verb stemmed; stem·ming : to stop or check by or as if by damming

stem cell noun : an undifferentiated cell that may give rise to many different types of cell

stench noun : STINK

sten·cil noun [ORIGIN: prob. ultim. fr. ME stanseld brightly ornamented, fr. AF estencelé spangled, pp. of estenceler to sparkle, fr. estencele spark, fr. VL *stincilla, alter. of L scintilla]

: an impervious material (as metal or paper) perforated with lettering or a design through which a substance (as ink or paint) is applied to a surface to be printed

— stencil verb

ste·nog·ra·phy noun : the art or process of writing in shorthand

— ste·nog·ra·pher noun

— steno·graph·ic adjective

ste·no·sis noun, plural -no·ses : a narrowing of a bodily passage or orifice

stent noun : a short narrow tube inserted into an anatomical vessel esp. to keep a passage open

sten·to·ri·an adjective : extremely loud and powerful

Synonyms

booming, clamorous, deafening, earsplitting, loud, piercing, resounding, ringing, roaring, sonorous, thunderous—more at LOUD

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